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• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  and resubmit it based on comments from my TA. Some of you might also be ... working out my own thoughts on crafting narratives, and am happy to hear any ... some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from me

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to ... only decades away, at best, from the point of no return on greenhouse gas ... . Superb work underway on many campuses today, from Berkeley and Stanford to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  budgeted for “interior design”. We were never planning on spending any of it ... melody and recreating it on a xylophone. Sometimes we would have a group of ... arranging the build and actually running the thing. Because of that, I wanted

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  work on our last pset together, and talk about a bunch of random stuff ... ever since. the past week and a half has been truly bad. and a lot of it ... . it was all well and good. sure, there was this doubt lingering on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  flurry of thoughts last night ideas kept on popping up and getting knocked ... spent [annotation note="to be fair, most of it went into sorting and ... wrote maybe like 10% of the blog and everything else was from my lovely

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and ... . He took a look at the list of HASS classes I'd taken, and said ... /3 of your HASS concentration done, and emerging with 4/3 of your HASS

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  day of work. On top of that, there was also a 2-hour exec and a 1-hour ... of itself, but preparing for that one exam--and finshing up my other ... and trek over to the Skating Club of Boston, a 20-minute Uber-ride away

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  carbs after a tough run and I’m not in any mood to assemble it myself ... impressive in my opinion when I have UROP, Track, and play rehearsals going on ... an hour of free time between the end of a long run and a rehearsal

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  weeks back, and it was a great book -- put it on your summer reading list! ... A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing & Humanistic Studies, appeared on The Colbert Report. Certainly Prof

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  were so reminiscent of lab and design questions on my engineering PSETs ... could focus primarily on improving the depth and quality of my analysis ... , you polish your favorite presentation and give it in front of the whole

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  a subgenre of progressive metal characterized by complex rhythms and ... basically the Pluto of metal subgenres, with its validity up to debate and ... usually played on guitars with a sacriledjeous number of strings. I think it

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  past CPW, one of my freshmen was on Next CPW Comm, and suggested a ... tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never ... . The other day, I called Allen, one of the underclassmen in my wing, and

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  picked and pruned at what would make me seem most interesting, most full-of ... the letter would drop (I lived on the west coast), brushed my teeth, and sat back on my bed with Erinn, expecting a full day of writing other

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  their project titles: Use of Homology Modeling and Molecular Docking to ... Analysis of Disease Susceptibility and Hereditary Patterns Using a Multi-Population Data Set Near-Infrared Albedo and Flux Variation of Saturn's Rings at 2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  paragraph is try. on bad days i still lose track of my internal monologue and ... all our interactions together and whether any of them made me sad, and ... figured out, part of me is happy for them and part of me is jealous, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  vaguely political ambiguity of the previous sentences and would rather just ... . And in the vast majority of cases, identity is non-negotiable. How did ... disability) based on prompts such as "Which of the categories do you find most

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... Admissions; be sure your full name and date of birth are included. You do not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  of salt and read up on online reviews to see if it holds up to what ... bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I ... me $100 on top of my store credit. I've gotten a lot of questions from

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  yada and drawing a little recursive path on a piece of paper. If it ... such a valid way to present information, especially demographics and any ... Awfully Named "Segregation" is a type of "assortment" and it notably has an

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  footsteps in a way that minimized pressure on my right foot, and after doing ... of workouts, i’ve begun a habit of working out at 2am on friday nights ... other days of the week are more reasonable). on the bright side, there are

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022